Rise Of The Tomb Raider arrives on PS4 this October with new PS VR mission

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Hi everyone! We just announced that Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration will launch on PlayStation 4 on 11th October 2016. We are thrilled to share this news with you.

When we were planning the PS4 version of Rise of the Tomb Raider, our very first imperative was to out-do anything we’d done before; such as our definitive editions. A mere “Game of the Year” wouldn’t satisfy us or our fans. We knew that the PlayStation community both deserved and demanded more than that. So we’re working with our long-time partner Nixxes Software to make this release truly special.

First, whenever we ask you what DLC you’re interested in, “new story” is number one on the wish list. Talking it over with our Franchise Creative Director, Noah Hughes, he immediately turned to a franchise favorite, Croft Manor.

While shown previously only in cut-scenes in the campaign of Rise of the Tomb Raider, the Manor represents more than just a place. It is Lara’s legacy, and in our new telling her birthright as well as a connection to her past. It’s an incredibly important part of her story and the franchise, and like many of you we have fond memories of it from the classic games. So we’re excited to introduce the all-new “Blood Ties” chapter, which will let you explore Croft Manor and unlock its mysteries in a new story mode; then defend it against an undead invasion in “Lara’s Nightmare”.

The Manor also offered a great opportunity for us to investigate the possibilities with cutting edge VR technology. So for the first time in franchise history, you’ll be able to play “Blood Ties” in first-person through Lara’s eyes!

Next, we’re adding a new online co-op expansion to Endurance mode. You and a friend can team up to raid tombs and battle for the longest survival run to stay at the top of the leaderboards.

To celebrate Tomb Raider releases through the years, you can outfit Lara with a re-envisioned version of the cold-weather outfit and the Hailstorm pistol that was featured in Tomb Raider III. In addition, a special card pack will allow you to replay the main story with five classic Lara models. You won’t believe your eyes when you see the original low-poly Lara model in glorious high fidelity Rise of the Tomb Raider cut-scenes.

For our hardcore fans, we’ve added a brutal new “Extreme Survivor” setting, which increases the difficulty and strips out all of the checkpoints. The only way to save your game is to forage enough resources to light campfires and survive from one to the next!

Finally, along with Endurance mode, all previously released DLC will be included, such as the three hour story addition Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch, and the Cold Darkness Awakened pack which forces you to combat waves of infected predators. Not to mention all of the outfits, all of the weapons, and a tonne of Expedition Cards. You receive everything in one package!

We can’t think of a better way to celebrate with all Tomb Raider fans, and to thank you for being on Lara’s 20 year journey with us. We’re excited to share more details on the new content in the coming months as we gear up for the launch of Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration on 11th October!

This is all very nice, curious to see what the price point will be on a year old game, though? It would also be nice to have an apology to the long standing fans on Playstation for the horrendous exclusivity rubbish and promise that it won’t happen again.

I imagine it’s going to be full price, what with all the extra content.Also, I don’t think apologies are in order.It’s just Microsoft throwing money about, trying (and some might say failing) to generate Xbone sales at the end of the day.Are PlayStation going to apologise to Spider-Man fans that don’t own a PlayStation?

Luc1ferous – I hope you are joking… apology? For what and from whom exactly? From Microsoft for making it an exclusive?Should Playstation be apologizing for The Last of US or Beyond 2 Souls etc.? Oh wait, my friend can’t afford a Playstation, I guess an apology is in order ;)When you were buying a console were you not aware about exclusive content?I would say PS is doing a really great job in getting “exclusives” from Microsoft.Also I am super excited for Rise of the Tomb Raider, didn’t even mind waiting – all patches are done, DLCs included, everything is perfect and ready for the Players :)

Been looking forward to this, it’s a shame Tomb Raider fans on PlayStation had to wait but at least we will get the definitive edition. I especially like the sound of the online coop survival mode and it’ll be very cool to check out Croft Manor again after ages.

At first before I wasn’t planning to buying this since we were sold this game so late compared to PC and Xbox it irritated me but with all DLC included and new modes too like PSVR support etc now looks like you made it up for us guess I’ll buy it now :)

“The Manor also offered a great opportunity for us to investigate the possibilities with cutting edge VR technology. So for the first time in franchise history, you’ll be able to play “Blood Ties” in first-person through Lara’s eyes!”

Oh, so now we are allowed to buy your game? How about NO! You screw your biggest fanbase with this stupid exclusive deal, and only thing it did is angered your fans and damaged the franchise. You don’t deserve even one sold copy for this move.

Really hoping the price is respectable after offensively having to wait for so long for this and pretty much sabotaging the release as a whole. Screwing the fanbase and developers. If this goes for full retail now (which in itself is a joke) I won’t even bother or second hand as cheap as possible.

Have played the games since beginning and was sad to see Xbox steal a march on us. Looking forward to new game as always and hope it will be all that you promise. Love the girl, love the game, Happy Anniversary Tomb Raider and all tombies!

Hey don’t buy it full price then, or buy second hand no worries for me. But it’s sad that gamers are this entitled that they will miss out on a great game because of behind hurt.

I love that people seem to believe Sony are innocent of this exact practice. They only thing missing on the X version was the plat but I myself and not immature enough to avoid another play through. I joked about U4 but this was a far better game for the genre and I’ll enjoy it again.

Yeaaah, never said any of that, anywhere. Don’t intend on missing out, best case scenario for me is SE receiving nothing though. No one owes these companies anything, that includes Sony. You don’t get a medal for sticking up for them and poor decisions.

I’ll wait… When I find it at a good price, or second handed, I’ll buy it. Preferably second hand.The least money you win, the better. You need to learn some way, that you should not ***** up the majoroty of you fanbase.I think lara croft and the temple of osiris, learned the hard way.

Agree smokeypsd. They have missed the boat with this one. Way too many games coming out and pre-ordered to care about this one anymore. Maybe if enough people give this a wide berth they will drop it to a reasonable price for a game that is nearly a year old.

I’m not too bothered about that exclusivity deal because uncharted 4 was there (which I was more hyped for) but now that we all know by having exclusive deals it ruins the sales + angers the fans I may buy this complete edition because I need that online coop xD.

Been eagerly awaiting this release. Absolutely enjoyed the 2013 one, and all reviews state that Rise is a huge improvement on the first with more tombs to raider. Glad they are including all the DLC and extras. Just not sure about paying full price for a year old game. Might have to wait for a sale to come along.

Well to be honest. It’s not a day one buy for me.Why not? You choose a time were other games have just been released and others will release at the time or straight after. Generally your game is way down on the list.Why is it down on the list?I don’t pay full price for a game that is about an year old, even with the dlc stuff. I don’t care.You make that type of deal, selling out so that the fanbase that made sure the franchise even survived that long. Well do you also put your hand into the mouth of a hungry lion? I doubt you would.

I will most likely buy it used, there is absolutely no reason for you guys to get money from my purchase. As mentioned there are other games I am looking forward to. They will definitely keep me occupied more than enough.

Anyway Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix, you got what you wanted, you got some quick cash from Microsoft, but angered the fans of the 2 biggest communities – PC and Playstation. Well done. Also now that you may not sell well on Pl...

Well to be honest. It’s not a day one buy for me.Why not? You choose a time were other games have just been released and others will release at the time or straight after. Generally your game is way down on the list.Why is it down on the list?I don’t pay full price for a game that is about an year old, even with the dlc stuff. I don’t care.You make that type of deal, selling out so that the fanbase that made sure the franchise even survived that long. Well do you also put your hand into the mouth of a hungry lion? I doubt you would.

I will most likely buy it used, there is absolutely no reason for you guys to get money from my purchase. As mentioned there are other games I am looking forward to. They will definitely keep me occupied more than enough.

Anyway Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix, you got what you wanted, you got some quick cash from Microsoft, but angered the fans of the 2 biggest communities – PC and Playstation. Well done. Also now that you may not sell well on Playstation, you will probably make that as an excuse for timed exclusivity yet it was said exclusivity that caused it.

In the end it’s not the deal you made with Microsoft that is making me wait. It is actually just because there are other games, I just don’t think I will have time for Rise of the Tomb Raider for quite some time. So I will not buy it day 1 since I don’t think I have time for it. Waste of money if it gets a price reduction when I find the time. If you had chosen a release date like earlier like August, then maybe. But October, that’s just not a good month to release a game. Well not for me at least. I bet there are tons of people who are not interested in the games I will buy.

Crystal Dynamics, I hope you understand that the decisions you made in the past will haunt you in the future.Maybe not for me that much, but generally you have lost tons of fans. You better find a way to restore that fan base of yours, before it will be lost.

On a side note, the 2013 Tomb Raider was good, I guess this will be good too. Just a stupid situation you put yourself in to. Best of luck for you, let’s hope for a flawless release at least. Now that you have had almost a year to make sure that there aren’t flaws. ^^

Huge fan of Tomb Raider since the first game on Playstation. The first Tomb Raider game on Playstation is one of my favourite games. I loved the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot, and was really looking forward to Rise of the Tomb Raider. With that said, I will NEVER buy this game. I don’t support the way Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics treats it’s fans. I hope this is the end of silly exclusive deals. These deals never benefits us gamers.

I just hope the new online mode does not mean online trophies, I will buy the game regardless since I loved her first one and I love story driven games in general, but if online trophies are presented, it will take a lot of play time away, why try to expand your time with the game by hunting trophies when you know you will never take the platinum? (since I dont play online)

I have no doubts that this is a great game, however I don’t like the way they handled this. Square Enix’s main goal was “quick money” by not releasing this on playstation. I will not support this game as I don’t like their decisions. When it’s on sale for like 7 euros, then maybe. But otherwise – I don’t like you, people who are responsible for this delay.

Wow what a bunch of crybabies I’m not going to buy the game because of Microsoft seriously get over it, the reason it happened was because of uncharted 4 ms needed a game has good it U4 and didn’t have it so bought tr for a year.Then uncharted 4 got delayed but anyway you get to play it now, imo it was good business sense of ms to get this game.Besides I think the old tomb raider games are awful I will always prefer the reboot series.

Wow that’s not nice calling me an a m*ron lol, I don’t know why people take it so seriously it’s just game you will now be able to play just be happy with that.If you own both consoles like me this isn’t a problem.

What is fair is fair. You made me wait, i’ll make you wait too… for my money. And you will get it when its around 20€. If i waited this long, why not a couple of months more? Whats the rush seriously? All the hype died.

I have pre-ordered Mafia 3 and I want to play The Last Guardian a lot. I also want to buy the PSVR if I can preview is somewhere first so it ‘ll be a ling time before I would buy Tombraider, but that is ok, I needed to wait for it so long I can wait even longer.